Who is noel weiss

His observation, combined with the results of other related studies, led to the development of alternate means of administering estrogens combined estrogen-plus-progesterone hormone therapy that did not give rise to this adverse effect. His other research interests include assessing the effectiveness of various cancer-screening tools in reducing cancer deaths. The Media Relations team at Fred Hutch is available to assist members of the news media who would like to arrange interviews with faculty.

Email media fredhutch. Donate Now. He has nearly three decades of experience in teaching epidemiologic methods at the graduate level and has received three prizes for outstanding teaching, including the University of Washington UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine Outstanding Teaching Award and the UW Distinguished Teaching Award He was chair of the UW Department of Epidemiology from to Koepsell with the Abraham Lilienfeld Award in Koepsell was president of SER from to Sign in.

Remember me. Log in. Epidemiology was on the 2 nd highest floor 13? There were classrooms of modest size in the building, but no actual lecture halls — for School-wide lectures we would go to 1 Shattuck Street. There were no personal computers back then, and the only electronic calculators were giant devices that had to be shared.

There was an enormous computer on the floor below us which I never used , along with punch cards, a card sorter, and a card reader. As I recall, we would put the cards in the reader and have the contents sent to a Harvard computer in Cambridge, the output sent back to us on paper the next day.

I remember doing and enjoying my programming in SPSS. What was your process in choosing a topic? I had the idea of using the data from the Framingham Study to study a possible connection between a history of oophorectomy and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke. Though Kannel thought it was a fine idea, the project was nixed by higher ups at the then National Heart Institute; they were funding the study, and wished to take this question on themselves.

I was VERY disappointed, but regrouped and developed a plan to address the causes of a related condition peripheral artery disease in women using a case-control study. My advisor, Brian MacMahon, okayed this with a modification to include men , and committed the Department to provide some modest data collection costs. A happy ending! What was the thesis writing process like for you? Were there any particular challenges?

Any unexpected surprises? My dissertation consisted of four articles, each of which went on to be published. The only thing I remember about the writing was the help that Brian MacMahon provided. His reviews of my drafts were prompt and constructive. But getting his direct input on my own work was a major factor in developing my skill in communicating my thoughts.